SW 621 - Social Work Practice with Groups

(3 units)

This course prepares students to practice ethically and effectively with groups. The course builds social work skills, knowledge, and values in social groupwork contexts and introduces students to group process theories, methods and strategies. Students will use evidence-informed and culturally responsive methods to facilitate anti-racist and anti-oppressive group work practice.

Maximum units a student may earn: 3

Prerequisite(s): SW 620. Corequisite(s): SW 681.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. reflect on personal values, experiences, and biases and develop professional boundaries within professional interactions.
2. apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice principles to practice effectively and ethically with group members.
3. interpret ethical frameworks to explore complex ethical dilemmas in practice.
4. demonstrate task and treatment groupwork facilitation skills through evaluation, rapport-building, member engagement and change.
5. initiate evidence-based practices for work with groups.
6. connect conceptual and theoretical models of group process with social work competencies.
7. apply group planning steps to group development.
8. generate framework for group evaluation.

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